Hidden Authorial Labor in the Early Modern Social Network

J.R. Ladd, Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Social network analysis makes it possible to retrace a large number of relationships and joint efforts at once. Using the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon network of who knew whom in early modern Britain, what hidden writerly labor can we find in these social networks, and how might it change our conception of who "counts" as an author in the period?

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